HAMED OUATTARA – BOLIBANA

Posted on 2023-08-28

Hamed Ouattara, one of the most prominent voices in the world of contemporary African design, marks his American debut by unveiling a new body of work and featuring a continuation of his characteristic modes of making. In the Bamana language of West Africa, ‘Bolibana’ refers to the unusual end of a journey, a transformation. Known for upcycling discarded materials, such as his signature oil drums, into distinctively colorful works, Ouattara engages with industrial debris to tell an unusual end to the story of waste and global trade.

Opposite – Afrikya (Africia), 2022

Exhibition runs through to September 13th, 2023

Friedman Benda
8260 Marmont Lane
CA 90069 Los Angeles
USA

www.friedmanbenda.com

  

ANTOINETTE ZWIRCHMAYR – IN THE STRANGLEHOLD OF IVY

Posted on 2023-08-21

Galerie Eva Presenhuber is pleased to present a 10-channel film installation In the stranglehold of ivy by Antoinette Zwirchmayr, curated by Tobias Pils, in the basement of the gallery as part of Curated by 2023.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to October 25th, 2023

Galerie Eva Presenhuber
Lichtenfelsgasse 5
A-1010 Vienna
Austria

www.presenhuber.com

  

BÁRBARA SÁNCHEZ-KANE – NEW LEXICONS FOR EMBODIMENT

Posted on 2023-08-21

Mexican artist and designer Barbara Sanchez-Kane’s first solo exhibition at the New York space. Navigating the individual yet intertwined worlds of fashion and art, Sánchez-Kane considers the clothed body as the interface with which we experience the world and interact with reality, and examines how garments contribute to the interpretation of identity and personal expression.

Opposite – Look 3, 2023

Exhibition runs through to October 21st, 2023

Kurimanzutto
520 W 20th St
NY 10011 New York
USA

www.kurimanzutto.com

  

VALENTIN CARRON – HAUS UND KROPF

Posted on 2023-08-21

Although there were attempts in the 20th century to increasingly incorporate the immaterial into art, as the examples of Marcel Duchamp or Mark Rothko show, the binding of art to its materials remains a fundamental prerequisite. This applies all the more to sculpture, for it is always a setting in that reality which man and society can produce, change, or destroy. Until a few decades ago, three categories were considered the standard for the attitude of a sculptor: to the first belonged the aspect of modeling (with the classical materials of stone, wood and bronze), to the second the use of industrially produced materials and to the last, finally, the inclusion of found materials of any kind. In a further step, some artists have appropriated works by colleagues in the sense of Appropriaton Art and placed them into new contexts.

Opposite – Innocent 5, 2023

Exhibition runs through to October 25th, 2023

Galerie Eva Presenhuber
Lichtenfelsgasse 5
A-1010 Vienna
Austria

www.presenhuber.com

  

CHARLINE VON HEYL

Posted on 2023-08-14

Charline von Heyl was born in Germany in 1960 and has lived in the United States since 1996. She studied painting in Hamburg and Düsseldorf and participated in the Cologne-based art scene in the 1980s. She currently divides her time between New York, NY and Marfa, TX.

Von Heyl’s first survey show was at Le Consortium, Dijon in 2009. Her first U.S. museum show was at the Dallas Museum of Art in 2005 and her first US survey was at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia in 2011.

Her work has been exhibited both in the United States and abroad, including solo museum exhibitions at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany (2018); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC (2018); the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium (2018); Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago (2015); the Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom (2012); the Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Germany (2012); Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2009), and the Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria (2004), among many others.

Opposite – Demons Dance Alone, 2022

Exhibition runs through to October 28th, 2023

Petzel Gallery
520 W 25th Street
NY 10001
New York

www.petzel.com

  

CHIHARU SHIOTA – THE WALL BEHIND THE WINDOWS

Posted on 2023-08-14

Shiota has been collecting discarded windows around Berlin ever since first arriving in the city in the late 1990s, a place she now calls home. Like the Japanese-born artist’s labyrinthine installations that envelop everyday keepsakes in delicate fibers, effectively turning them into materializations of memory, the window holds special significance in Shiota’s cosmos as a threshold device: it protects one from the outside and yet allows visual access to all that lies within its purview. Finding windows across the city, torn from the edifices where they once belonged, was a curious site to behold for Shiota.

Opposite – Installation view

Exhibition runs through to November 11th, 2023

KÖNIG GALERIE
St. Agnes – Alexandrinenstr, 118-121
10969 Berlin
Germany

www.koeniggalerie.com